MHI - Donate

As of September 2015, Media Haven has been working to expand our efforts and our reach through services rendered, however these services are costly to provide. If you would like to help Media Haven continue to show the realities of alternate life styles, please donate. Any amount and donation will help our organization running. You can donate to us through PayPal By Clicking here.

How your Donations help

Events and presentations

Being able to talk about harassment prevention at NDK 2016 was an absolute blast. It really is important for us to be able to continue going to these events as it allows MHI to bring our anti-harassment message directly to the communities. These events are therefore the back bone of Media Haven.

Fostering friendship and community

The silly moments you see in these photos to the are of cosplayers at a convention just being goofy and having the time of their lives with their friends. The problem is that paid conventions are often the only place cosplayers or those of a wide variety of different subcultures have to be able to let loose and fully embrace their alternate life style. This is by no means a coincidence either with the variety of different "Issues" Main stream society has with this kind of behavior.

From females being demanded to tell their breast sizes (And when she outwardly refused to answer the question having her breast size become a topic for the crowd to shout out their takes on instead of what she was at the con to promote...) to being told that "You aren't a true [Enter sub-culture here] because you dont _____" after you have spent months of blood, tears, cash, time, and energy into your passion.

This isn't to indicate in any way that these subcultures are bad, just to point out the fact that these stories often never see the light of day. There are a million wonderful things to be had in subculture, but like any other grouping of humans, issues arise. The only difference is what is done about it. That's where we want to step in.

Empowering people

There is nothing worse than talking about your works only for someone to walk into the conversation to tell you "Oh, this awesome cosplayer does that too, but they do it better than you." only for you to stand there thinking to yourself "I AM that cosplayer...." or even worse, for no one to take notice of your work.

Media Haven is the one that makes it our business to bring these artists, entrepreneurs, and works to the light of day.

The cosplayer in this photo is Sparkle Pipsi, she has put work into not only her own cosplays but making cosplaying more intricate designs more accessible to those who want to learn. We just can't understand why no one is talking about this... so we are.

Bringing light to topics that desperately need it.

By being the one that gets these topics to the light of day, we also open up conversation and controversy. While it is a double edged sword, the very act of talking about these topics also open the door for solutions to be found and awareness to spread.

We can't solve our problems if no one is listening. Media Haven International listens and we strive to spread that conversation.

What's more, is that there are needless deaths that occur every day because certain topics are deemed as "Taboo", and those that enjoy them are also deemed as "Taboo". This creates a wide net of "We don't talk about that." that can ultimately take the life of the individuals trapped by that way of thinking.